Ep 129: Regardless Of What I Do, I'm Never Going To Succeed
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Taking the first steps towards making an impossible goal possible can feel paralyzing. From getting active, making a healthy lifestyle change, losing weight, running your first half marathon or marathon, to running a terrifying time goal like breaking 2 in a half, when your goal is so huge that it feels impossible, if you don't have prior success to call on, it's hard not to expect failure.
Let's talk about how to persevere and kick ass and take names when all signs point to failure.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello there. Welcome. Oh, what a weird opening. Hello. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast, where we talk about life with the side of running. I am your host, Kelly Roberts. And today I am coming to you live. Not live. I'm in a garage, |
| 0:22.6 | in my friend's garage in California. And when I told her, I'm going to go record a podcast in her |
| 0:27.8 | garage. She looked at me like, what? What does that mean? And how? But you know what? That's what |
| 0:32.8 | you do. I've recorded in weirder places. Oh, yeah. |
| 0:38.1 | You guys, today, today, woof. |
| 0:40.9 | Oh, this episode is, yeah, I'm going through it. |
| 0:45.1 | This episode is for anyone who is like looking down the barrel at a goal that they just don't know how the hell they're going to make happen. |
| 0:54.1 | Maybe it is a goal to run a distance or run a certain time, like break two and a half. |
| 1:01.0 | Maybe you're about to start training or just started training for a marathon, a terrifying |
| 1:06.0 | marathon or half marathon. |
| 1:09.4 | Maybe you're thinking about, you know, maybe it's like not running related at all. |
| 1:13.4 | Maybe you're thinking about changing careers or going back to school or asking for a raise or |
| 1:17.5 | maybe you're thinking about ending a relationship or starting one. |
| 1:21.4 | Maybe you're thinking about having a really, really, really hard conversation. |
| 1:25.9 | Whatever it is, whatever it is that you are looking to make happen, |
| 1:29.8 | when that finish line feels light years away and you truly believe, like, without a |
| 1:35.2 | shadow of a doubt that there's no use in trying because it is never going to happen. |
| 1:41.2 | This is the episode for you because that is where I'm at right now too. I kind of feel like |
| 1:48.8 | I'm standing on the cliff and looking down and I'm struggling to jump because I keep falling |
| 1:53.9 | into the like, this isn't going to happen for me, trap. And I keep going back and forth between |
| 1:59.8 | feeling like that and then giving myself a pep talk |
| 2:03.8 | and focusing on the present because I know better. I'm totally aware of what I'm experiencing |
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